Rupert Murdoch, who is receiving the Atlantic Council of the United States? Distinguished Business Leader Award for 2008, says in his prepared remarks that, ?We must face up to a painful truth: Europe no longer has either the political will or social culture to support military engagements in defense of itself and its allies."
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?Around the world, there is no shortage of nations who share our values, and are willing to defend them. I am thinking of countries like Australia, which sent troops to Iraq ? Israel, which has been fighting Islamic terrorism almost since its founding ? and Japan, which generally follows a more ?Western? policy than most of Western Europe.?
[Snickers from the audience :-]
...Jim Thompson